* Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
@ 2016-07-16 19:05 Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-16 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Has anyone written a Libreoffice extension that will export Org mode? I
do this a lot, and it's a huge waste of time -- doing a search and
replace for bold or italics, in particular, is very annoying, and
sometimes doesn't work for reasons I don't understand. I just had to
convert a 200+ page document to Org by hand: searching for italics
worked, but not replace.
Does anyone have any handy tools? Most of it can be done after a
document has been turned into plain text, but not headings and emphasis
markup...
Thanks,
Eric
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 19:05 Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
2016-07-16 19:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 19:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 21:08 ` John Kitchin
2016-07-17 17:53 ` Christian Moe
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From: Samuel W. Flint @ 2016-07-16 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Abrahamsen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Export to docx and use pandoc? Something like `pandoc input.doc -o
output.org` should work.
HTH,
Sam
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
@ 2016-07-16 19:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 19:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-16 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
swflint@flintfam.org (Samuel W. Flint) writes:
> Export to docx and use pandoc? Something like `pandoc input.doc -o
> output.org` should work.
I should have thought of that! Will give it a shot.
I also noticed (too late) that my Libreoffice will export to mediawiki
format. That's plain text, at any rate, and keeps formatting, so regular
expressions should do the trick.
E
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
2016-07-16 19:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2016-07-16 19:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-16 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
swflint@flintfam.org (Samuel W. Flint) writes:
> Export to docx and use pandoc? Something like `pandoc input.doc -o
> output.org` should work.
Well dammit. I just tried it, and it worked great. Next time...
E
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 19:05 Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
@ 2016-07-16 21:08 ` John Kitchin
2016-07-16 21:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-17 17:53 ` Christian Moe
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From: John Kitchin @ 2016-07-16 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Abrahamsen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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Check out ox-clip. It does formatted copy and paste. It is on Melpa.
On Saturday, July 16, 2016, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Has anyone written a Libreoffice extension that will export Org mode? I
> do this a lot, and it's a huge waste of time -- doing a search and
> replace for bold or italics, in particular, is very annoying, and
> sometimes doesn't work for reasons I don't understand. I just had to
> convert a 200+ page document to Org by hand: searching for italics
> worked, but not replace.
>
> Does anyone have any handy tools? Most of it can be done after a
> document has been turned into plain text, but not headings and emphasis
> markup...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 21:08 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-07-16 21:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 22:13 ` John Kitchin
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-16 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Check out ox-clip. It does formatted copy and paste. It is on Melpa.
Oh cool -- thanks for the tip!
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 21:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2016-07-16 22:13 ` John Kitchin
2016-07-16 22:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: John Kitchin @ 2016-07-16 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Abrahamsen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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It is formatted from org to applications. That may not be the direction you
were going.
On Saturday, July 16, 2016, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu <javascript:;>> writes:
>
> > Check out ox-clip. It does formatted copy and paste. It is on Melpa.
>
> Oh cool -- thanks for the tip!
>
>
>
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John
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Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 22:13 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-07-16 22:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-16 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> It is formatted from org to applications. That may not be the
> direction you were going.
Ah, no -- I'm going in the other direction, into Org. I installed the
package anyway :)
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-16 19:05 Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-16 19:15 ` Samuel W. Flint
2016-07-16 21:08 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-07-17 17:53 ` Christian Moe
2016-07-17 19:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Christian Moe @ 2016-07-17 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Abrahamsen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> I just had to convert a 200+ page document to Org by hand: searching
> for italics worked, but not replace.
Looks like pandoc is the way to go, I'll have to try it.
Still, Search/Replace for italics in LibreOffice ought to work. Try this
recipe:
1) Edit -> Find / Replace -> More options: check the box for "regular
expressions".
2) On "Search for", type "(.*)" (without the quotes, with the parens).
3) With the cursor still on the "Search for" box, click on "Format" and
select "Italics".
4) As a replacement, type: "/$1/" (for Org).
5) Replace all.
Annoyingly, there seems to be no way to write a macro for this in
LibreOffice, as formating attributes on search/replace isn't part of the
API. (If anyone has information to the contrary, please let me know.)
Yours,
Christian
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* Re: Importing ODT/libreoffice into Org
2016-07-17 17:53 ` Christian Moe
@ 2016-07-17 19:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-07-17 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>
>> I just had to convert a 200+ page document to Org by hand: searching
>> for italics worked, but not replace.
>
> Looks like pandoc is the way to go, I'll have to try it.
>
> Still, Search/Replace for italics in LibreOffice ought to work. Try this
> recipe:
>
> 1) Edit -> Find / Replace -> More options: check the box for "regular
> expressions".
> 2) On "Search for", type "(.*)" (without the quotes, with the parens).
> 3) With the cursor still on the "Search for" box, click on "Format" and
> select "Italics".
> 4) As a replacement, type: "/$1/" (for Org).
> 5) Replace all.
I have done that successfully in the past! This time it wouldn't work.
In the "other options" menu, after you choose the italics, there's a
"including styles" checkbox. Libreoffice would only find the italics if
that was checked, but if it was checked, clicking replace wouldn't work
-- it would ignore the contents of the replace box, and instead change
the style of the paragraph to "paragraph style". No matter what I poked,
that's all it would do. I appreciate Libreoffice in a way, but it's
mystery behavior like that that makes me get out of it as soon as
humanly possible.
It can be pandoc's job now!
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